Relative residential property value as a socio-economic status indicator for health research

Neil T CoffeeSocial Epidemiology and Evaluation Research Group, School of Population Health and Sansom Institute for Health Research, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide 5001, AustraliaInt J Health Geogr 12:22. 2013

Local descriptive norms for overweight/obesity and physical inactivity, features of the built environment, and 10-year change in glycosylated haemoglobin in an Australian population-based biomedical cohort

Suzanne J CarrollSpatial Epidemiology and Evaluation Research Group, Centre for Population Health Research, School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Electronic addressSoc Sci Med 166:233-43. 2016

Residential proximity to urban centres, local-area walkability and change in waist circumference among Australian adults

Do relationships between environmental attributes and recreational walking vary according to area-level socioeconomic status?

Takemi SugiyamaSpatial Epidemiology and Evaluation Research Group, Sansom Institute for Health Research and School of Population Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, 5001, AustraliaJ Urban Health 92:253-64. 2015

..This may indicate a limitation in the use of administrative spatial units for analyses of walkability and health outcomes...

Relative residential property value as a socio-economic status indicator for health research

Neil T CoffeeSocial Epidemiology and Evaluation Research Group, School of Population Health and Sansom Institute for Health Research, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide 5001, AustraliaInt J Health Geogr 12:22. 2013

..These risk factors were also summed and expressed as a cumulative cardiometabolic risk (CMR) score...

Local descriptive norms for overweight/obesity and physical inactivity, features of the built environment, and 10-year change in glycosylated haemoglobin in an Australian population-based biomedical cohort

Suzanne J CarrollSpatial Epidemiology and Evaluation Research Group, Centre for Population Health Research, School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Electronic addressSoc Sci Med 166:233-43. 2016

..Further empirical research on local descriptive norms is necessary to understand how residential environments shape chronic disease risk. ..

Residential proximity to urban centres, local-area walkability and change in waist circumference among Australian adults

..Controlled development and targeted interventions in the urban fringe may be needed to tackle obesity. Additional research needs to assess behaviours that mediate relationships between sprawl and obesity...

Do relationships between environmental attributes and recreational walking vary according to area-level socioeconomic status?

Takemi SugiyamaSpatial Epidemiology and Evaluation Research Group, Sansom Institute for Health Research and School of Population Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, 5001, AustraliaJ Urban Health 92:253-64. 2015

..Improving such attributes in low SES neighborhoods may help close socioeconomic disparities in leisure time physical activity...

Anh D NgoSocial Epidemiology and Evaluation Research Group, Sansom Institute for Health Research, and School of Population Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide 5001, AustraliaBMC Public Health 13:681. 2013

..This study prospectively examined the relationships between area-level socioeconomic position (SEP) and the incidence of MetS...

Public open spaces and walking for recreation: moderation by attributes of pedestrian environments

Takemi SugiyamaSpatial Epidemiology and Evaluation Research Group, Sansom Institute for Health Research, School of Population Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Electronic addressPrev Med 62:25-9. 2014

..This study examined whether attributes of pedestrian environments moderate the relationships between access to public open spaces (POS) and adults' recreational walking...

Lisa A MatriccianiSocial Epidemiology and Evaluation Research Group, Sansom Institute for Health Research, School of Population Health, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide 5001, AustraliaInt J Environ Res Public Health 10:571-89. 2013

Validation of continuous clinical indices of cardiometabolic risk in a cohort of Australian adults

Suzanne J CarrollSpatial Epidemiology and Evaluation Research Group, School of Population Health and Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaBMC Cardiovasc Disord 14:27. 2014

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Associations between resident perceptions of the local residential environment and metabolic syndrome

Katherine BaldockSocial Epidemiology and Evaluation Research Group, Sansom Institute for Health Research and School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, AustraliaJ Environ Public Health 2012:589409. 2012

..Initiatives targeting residents' perceptions of local areas may enhance the utility of environmental interventions to improve population health...

Demographic and urban form correlates of healthful and unhealthful food availability in Montréal, Canada

Differences in associations between active transportation and built environmental exposures when expressed using different components of individual activity spaces

Torbjorn van HeeswijckSpatial Epidemiology and Evaluation Research Group, School of Population Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide 5001, SA, Australia Electronic addressHealth Place 33:195-202. 2015

..Associations were strongest when including travel paths in expression of the built environment. Land use mix and greenness were negatively related to active transportation. ..

Association of fast-food restaurant and fruit and vegetable store densities with cardiovascular mortality in a metropolitan population

Mark DanielSansom Institute for Health Research, The University of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaEur J Epidemiol 25:711-9. 2010

..These results together with null associations between FVS density and mortality do not support a major role for food source availability in cardiovascular outcomes...

Total n-3 fatty acid and SFA intakes in relation to insulin resistance in a Canadian First Nation at risk for the development of type 2 diabetes

Catherine Paquet1 Social Epidemiology and Evaluation Research Group, Sansom Institute for Health Research, School of Population Health, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, GPO Box 2471, City East Campus, Adelaide, SA 5001, AustraliaPublic Health Nutr 17:1337-41. 2014

..The present study sought to investigate the associations of total n-3 fatty acid and SFA intakes with insulin resistance in a Canadian First Nation sample at risk for type 2 diabetes...